CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

Chapter 414, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

SALMON AND STEELHEAD HARVEST REPORTS

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97

Passed by the House April 24, 1997

Yeas 97 Nays 0

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997

Yeas 46 Nays 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

Chief Clerk

Approved May 19, 1997

FILED

May 19, 1997 - 7:23 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

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Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Linville, Buck, Hatfield, Chandler, Cooper, Sump, Regala, Butler, Anderson, Doumit, Morris, Sheldon, Tokuda, Kessler, Scott, Blalock and Dickerson)

Read first time 02/21/97.

AN ACT Relating to salmon harvest reporting; and adding a new section to chapter 75.08 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 75.08 RCW to read as follows:

Beginning September 1, 1998, and each September 1st thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature identifying the total salmon and steelhead harvest of the preceding season. This report shall include the final commercial harvests and recreational harvests. At a minimum, the report shall clearly identify:

(1) The total treaty tribal and nontribal harvests by species and by management unit;

(2) Where and why the nontribal harvest does not meet the full allocation allowed under United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (1974) (Boldt I) including a summary of the key policies within the management plan that result in a less than full nontribal allocation; and

(3) The location and quantity of salmon and steelhead harvested under the wastage provisions of United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (1974).